Outlook – Disable Desktop Notifications
KB ID 0000901 Problem Outlook will (by default), display a notification on your screen when you receive an email. Generally this is a good thing, but if (like me) your Outlook collects your personal mail as well, then you might not want these notifications flashing up on your screen. Solution 1. From within Outlook > File > Options. 2. Mail > Untick ‘Display a Desktop Alert’. Related Articles, References,...
OneNote – Notebooks cannot sync – Error 0xE0000024
KB ID 0000650 Problem I use OneNote quite a lot, after a laptop rebuild, I installed the Live ID Sign in assistant (because it asked for it) and then my notebooks stopped syncing to SkyDrive. OneNote needs a password to sync some of your notebooks. A password is required to synchronize this notebook (Error code: 0xE0000024). Solution There’s plenty of posts and articles on this that say “just run this reg...
Office / Word “Add to Dictionary” is Greyed out”
KB ID 0000046 Problem Can be caused by using a custom dictionary file, which was created in an earlier version of word. (or the custom.dic file is set to “Read Only”). Solution 1. Click the Word “Start Button” > Proofing. 2. Locate the “When Correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs”. 3. Click Custom dictionaries > Browse > This will show you the location of your custom.dic file. 4....
Office Install Error 1935
KB ID 0000399 Problem Seen while installing Office 2007 Enterprise On Server 2008 R2 (Don’t ask). Error: Microcyst Office enterprise 2007 encountered and error during setup. Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of an assembly component {837Bf-1EB-D770-94EB-A01F-C8B389A1E18E}. HRESULT: 0x80070BC9 Solution 1. Essentially there is a .Net problem, On Server 2008 you will need to add in .Net as a feature. (Server...
Deploying Office 2010 via Group Policy
KB ID 0000464 Problem What used to be the simplest task, has now been overly complicated (Thanks Microsoft!) Simply deploying from a single .msi file would have been far too easy! This procedure uses group policy to install Microsoft Office 2010 via group policy. It uses the Microsoft preferred method of employing startup scripts. Below I’ve also disabled UAC, I found it was stopping my automated install, (If I ran the script...